Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-02
ISLAND POND, VERMONT, DECEMBER 2, 1887
NEWS IN GENERAL
DOMESTIC.

Two special freight trains on the Cairo, !
Vincennes 81 Chicago line collided while
rounding q curve two miles below Tunel
Hill, Ill. Both engineers and fireman and
bIeakman were killed, and both trains were
badly damaged. The accident was due to an
error in the orders given by the train dis
patcher.
Capt Bunce Of the United States ship At
lanta is indignant at the report sent out from
Washington concerning bis letter to the
navy department and his recommendation
of changes on the Atlanta. He says the re-
port was greatly exaggerated, and that the
changes he recommends were not such as to
warrant the statement that the vessel is
practically worthless, nor such as to cost
$780, 900 as reported. He will await the dis
closure Of the contents of his letter by the
navy department.
While depot hack containing several pas
sengers was turning a cornerin Maiden, Mass,
it was overturned, and all the passengers
received bad shaking up. The driver was
also badly cut. The hack was badly wrecked.
A gentleman in Portland, Me-, received a
dynamite bomb in package from Boston.
He opened it so slowly that it did not ex-
plo6e He took it to the police, who refuse
to divulge the recipients namo or to show
the bomb toreporteTs.
The Manchester & Lawrence railroad will
shovtly-institute suit in equity against the
Concord railroad corporation to recover
about 81 10000 which sum it is contended
has been received and retained by the Con-
cord road in excess Of its proportion while
the Manchester g. Lawrence was operated by
the Concord officials.
In dissecting the carcass Of the elephant
Alice, that was burned in the 1re at the Bar
mum & Bailey winter quarters, there were
| found over 300 pennies, part OF a pocket
knife four cane feruleS, piece Of lead pipe
and some pebbles.
John H. Bigus was hanged at Frederick,
Md, by mob of 100 men. When the dawn
came the sheriffs officers found the body
hanging from tree in the woods. His crime
was that he forced his way into Mrs. Yeake's
house and assaulted her.
The wife and eight children of laborer in
the salt mills in Syracuse, N. Y, were lost
with the steamer w. A. Scholten. Frost camo
| from West Prussia about nine months ago,
and saved all his money to pay for tho pas
sage Of his wife and children. 1t took all his
savings Sl53, to buy the tickets
| The steamer Charles P Choteau was
| burned at Sunhower Landing near the
mouth of the Yazoo river, with 4500 bales Of
cotton, 1000 sacks OF oil cake, 500 empty bar
| rels and seven racehorses A German deck
passenger and a negro tiremen lost their
| lives.
TwentY-six shoe manufacturers Of Roches-
ter, N Y, have posted notices in their shops
| announcing that when thsY begin spring
work they will require their employees to
work six days in the waek They say that
the observance of tn, S lturday half-holiday
has prevented them from competing success
fully with manufacturers in places where the
half-holiday is not observed.
John Harte, formerly manager OF the
Harte & Smith Manufacturing Company at
Belleville, Ont, has been arrested on charge
of embezzling funds of the company, amount
ing to about 1000.
George Francis Train has wired his former
private secretary, George P. Bemis, that he
felt sure his daughter and the children and
birds Of Madison square were pulling him
back, and that he had abandoned the idea of
expatriation.
The leather manufacturers Of Newark, n.
j., are so busy that they are taking some men
back who went on strike last summer, with
out requiring them to sign paper refusing
to join any labor union. This is done because
there is pressing need for good japanners.
Some one tore away the foundation Of the
cornerstone of memorial chapel which
James A. Webb, wholesale alcohol merchant
of New York is building at Madison, N. j., in
memory of his son, and SO uncovered the box
in which a number of coins and other articles
had been deposited, and distracted the
contents.
The Cleveland police expect to run down
the two companions of Tom Scott, the burg
lar that was shot by policemen recently. 1t
is now known that the gang intended to blow
open the vault of the Broadway Savings
Bank, and that their tools and dynamite
were in the basket over which the fight be-
gan. The bank had 500, 00J in its vault, it
being the day preceding payday at the mills.
1t is now certain that the dead robber was
ono of the Blinky Morgan gang, and q part
ner of the Lowrys and Rowlands, who are
oil outlaws. j. S. Foster, who was a guard
in the Albany penitentiary in 1870, and now
lives here, recognized Scott as a prisoner
who was sent to prison for Is years for a
robbery committed at Manhattanvile He
served IS years, and was released.
Judge Johnston at Ravenna, O., overruled
the motion for new trial in the case OF
"Blinky" Morgan, and sentenced the prisoner
to be hanged in the penitentiary at Collm-
bus, March 16, 1888.
The mangled body of Frank Gresko, a
Hungarian, was found on the track of the
Pennsylvania & Schuylkill Valley railroad
near Pottstown, Pa, and, on subsequent eX-
animation three bullet holes were found in
Gresko's head. He was recently married
and jealous companions are suspected Of foul
play.
The trouble with Louisiana strikers Is be-
lieved to be at an end.
Rev. DR.. Kelley of Nashville, Tenn, who
was criticised for defending Miss Emma
Abbotts interruption in church, submitted @
card to the board of Methodist missions
which was accepted as satisfactory. In it ht
states that he is opposed to the attendance Of
Christians at theatres, and he withdraws hi
remarks on the Abbott episode so far as they
may have been understood to defend al
interruption of public worship.
Thomas G. Shearman, leading member
of Plymouth church, has just returned from
a trip abroad. He called on Rev. Charle
Berry at Wolverhampton and thinks Mr.
Berry will accept the call to Plymouth
church, though he had not yet announced hi
decision.
Josiah Snider, a conductor in the employ
of the Brooklyn City railroad, and in charg'
of car on the Putnam avenue line, has be
come heir to an estate Of $50, 600 through tn
death of relative in Prescott Can. He will
stay in Brooklyn, and at present is still
driving on his car.
! A crazy Chinaman named Lee Theen, VIII
J was travelling on Denver & Rio Grand
I train to San Francisco attempted to stab tn
. ! brakeman, who rushed away and secured
pistol The Celestial began running amuck
and failing in his attempt to knife Mrs. Al
mond, he plunged the blade into the abdo
: men of George Hockettbridge Of Bunkers
, vile, Ill The brakeman fired three shot
! ! into the Chnaman and killed him. Hockett
bridge will die.
The assignee of the Bristol rubber works i
|, Providence announces that the hose roor
, will be started on Tuesday next, in order
utilize material in process of manufacture
$ This will give employment to about 100 mer
/ A heavy wind storm at Minneola. Tex.
\ blew down two-story frame dwelling /
e which about 10 negroes were having dance
Q Six were killed and 20 injured.
q A drummer has sued Lolita for $4,000 dai